Deceased Phrases

Phrases

• After all, tomorrow is another day (Gone With the Wind)
• As dead as a dodo
• As dead as a doornail
• As dead as mutton
• Asleep at the switch
• Asleep at the wheel
• Asleep with Jesus
• At death's door
• At peace
• At rest
• At the dead of night
• Back from the dead
• Badgered to death
• Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me (from a poem by Dickinson)
• Been and gone
• Better dead than red
• Better late than never
• Better off dead
• Blue screen of death
• Bored to death
• Brain dead
• Bring out your dead
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Brush with death
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Catch your death of cold
• Chivalry is not dead
• Colour me gone
• Cot death
• Cowards may die many times before their death
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut someone dead
• Dance of death
• Day late and a dollar short
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
• Dead air
• Dead and buried
• Dead and gone
• Dead cat bounce
• Dead cinch
• Dead duck
• Dead easy
• Dead end
• Dead from the neck up
• Dead giveaway
• Dead heads
• Dead heat
• Dead in the water
• Dead issue
• Dead letter
• Dead loss
• Dead man walking
• Dead meat
• Dead men tell no tales
• Dead men's shoes
• Dead of night
• Dead of winter
• Dead on arrival
• Dead on time
• Dead presidents
• Dead reckoning
• Dead ringer
• Dead to rights
• Dead to the world
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Dead white male
• Dead wood
• Death In Venice (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Death On The Nile (Agatha Christie book)
• Death On The Orient Express (Agatha Christie book)
• Death Valley (tourist attraction in Arizona USA)
• Death by PowerPoint
• Death by a thousand cuts
• Death by chocolate
• Death by committee
• Death by misadventure
• Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
• Death metal
• Death of a Salesman (play by Arthur Miller)
• Death trap
• Dice with death
• Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
• Die a death
• Died and gone to heaven
• Do something to death
• Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
• Done to death
• Down among the dead men
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list
• Drop down dead
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Fall asleep
• Fashionably late
• Fate worse than death
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Flogging a dead horse
• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn (Gone With the Wind)
• Give me liberty or give me death
• Given up for dead
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Going, going, gone

• Gone Dolally
• Gone With The Wind (Clark Gable / Vivien Leigh movie)
• Gone before
• Gone but not forgotten
• Gone fishing
• Gone for a Burton
• Gone tits up
• Gone to a better world
• Gone to pot
• Gone to seed
• Gone to the bad
• Gone to the dogs
• Good and dead
• Grim death
• Grip of death
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• Hair today gone tomorrow
• Half asleep
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Hang on like grim death
• He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Here today gone tomorrow
• Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate - the late, late drink (Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate advertising slogan)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I wouldn't be caught dead
• If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache (Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan)
• In at the death
• In the midst of life we are in death
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
• It's all gone pear shaped
• It's never too late
• It's never too late to learn
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Kill stone dead
• Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
• Kiss of death
• Knock 'em dead
• Late bloomer
• Late developer
• Late hour
• Late in the day
• Late in the game
• Late lamented
• Left for dead
• Let the dead bury the dead
• Life after death
• Life and death struggle
• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Like death warmed up
• Look death in the eye
• Lost and gone forever
• Loud enough to waken the dead
• Matter of life and death
• Merchant of death
• More dead than alive
• Mum's gone to Iceland (Iceland Supermarkets advertising slogan)
• Near death experience
• Never speak ill of the dead
• Nothing is certain but death and taxes
• Numbered with the dead
• On death row
• On pain of death
• Out of the jaws of death
• Over my dead body
• Play dead
• Political correctness gone mad
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Put to death
• Raise the dead
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Running late
• Scared to death
• See You Late Alligator (Bill Haley song)
• Sick to death of
• The Angel of Death (Nickname of Josef Mengele)
• The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) (The Chipmunks and David Seville song)
• The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
• The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death (Gene Weingarten book)
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The King of Late Night Television (Nickname of Jack Paar)
• The Living Death (Nickname of Lew Jenkins)
• The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Bob Dylan song)
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The empty chair (the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased)
• The late unpleasantness
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from the Lord's Prayer)
• The wages of sin is death
• Tickled to death
• Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
• To boldly go where no man has gone before (A catchphrase from Start Trek)
• Tonight's top ten list (A catchphrase from David Letterman In The Late Show)
• Too little, too late
• Turn up your toes
• Until death do us part
• Victory won't wait for the nation that's late (Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan)
• Wall of death
• Wanted, dead or alive
• Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (Pete Seeger song)
• Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You'll be the death of me
• You're a long time dead